Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar: Mechanisms and Processes

How does an utterance with a specific syntactic structure fit into the discourse context? Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar presents a landmark collection of articles that reframe this central question, offering compelling insights into the theory of information structure as a bridge between sentence grammar and discourse. In investigating different focus structures, such as focus operators, wh-questions, ellipsis, anaphora and adjuncts, the contributions provide new empirical corpus-based and experimental evidence and identify novel information structural mechanisms and processes that are at work in connecting the grammatical components proper with discourse grammar and common ground.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501520768
• ISBN13: 9781501520761
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"